At the same time, physicians may also be facing several disadvantages of family-centered rounds. First of all, family rounds take more time than the traditional way of giving the information to the parents through the conference room. Second, the physicians may not have the right communication skills which he could use to interact with the family and the medical team. Third, the physician might keep the decision making to him, thinking that among the other members of the team, and the family, he is the expert on the particular matter.
Fourth, sensitive issues may be discussed among the health professionals before actually transmitting them to the patients and their family members. Fifth, physicians run on a tight schedule, making it hard for them to schedule family-centered rounds that are usually composed of more members than the usual. At the same time, it would be more difficult for him/her to reach a decision, considering the number of people who have to be consulted, including the members of the family.
Sixth, physicians and other experts may not want to show the patients and their families that they are uncertain and do not have the best choice for the patient yet (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2007). The eleven health institutions used as samples were the same participants of the Vermont Oxford Network Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Quality Improvement Collaborative Year 2000 who chose to focus on family centered care as a vital step in improving the care being given to the infants in the NICUs as well as their families. However, the article was not able to explicitly explain why these institutions were chosen.
What is their significance in the study? Were these the institutions that have the best family-centered health care systems? Are these the models that other institutions who wish to adopt a family-centered health care system should follow? At the same time, the way the researchers collected data has been very efficient, looking into the newly designed health care systems of the eleven health care institutions. Looking into the four areas where the research focused. However, the procedure that the researchers followed in obtaining the necessary data was not clearly defined.
The results of the research were clearly defined, analyzing every data obtained and integrating it with their conceptual framework. From the beginning and throughout the period of research, centers were at different places for all the PBPs. Of the eleven health centers, seven readjusted their vision and philosophy of care statements regarding family-centered care. They also incorporated the vision and philosophy in their performance appraisals, the hiring of new staff members, and changing the unit culture to a more family-centered care were more difficult than actually constructing the statements.
Full parent participation in are requires unlimited access to the NICU or neonatal intensive care unit. This means that parents would no longer be considered as visitors but as essential partners of the caregivers in caring for their child. The shift towards a family-centered approach was more difficult to the centers that have stricter visitation policies (Moore, et al. , 2003). At the same time, these findings have been discussed thoroughly but the article was not able to interpret everything.
At the same time, recommendations have not been mentioned explicitly in the article. Lastly, other global issues were not presented in the article as it remained confined within the processes undergone by the institutions who wished to adopt a more family-centered health care system. From the beginning and throughout the period of research, centers were at different places for all the PBPs. Of the eleven health centers, seven readjusted their vision and philosophy of care statements regarding family-centered care.
They also incorporated the vision and philosophy in their performance appraisals, the hiring of new staff members, and changing the unit culture to a more family-centered care were more difficult than actually constructing the statements. Full parent participation in are requires unlimited access to the NICU or neonatal intensive care unit. This means that parents would no longer be considered as visitors but as essential partners of the caregivers in caring for their child. The shift towards a family-centered approach was more difficult to the centers that have stricter visitation policies (Moore, et al. , 2003).
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